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Hellboy, Vol. 3: The Chained Coffin and Others
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Paperback, Second Edition, 176 pages
Published
February 3rd 2004
by Dark Horse
(first published 1998)
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This third TPB edition features “Hellboy” #5-6, 12-14, along with a pin-up gallery.
The general rating is an average result of individual ratings given to each short story contained here.
Creative Team:
Creator, Writer & Illustrator: Mike Mignola
FINALLY THIS THING HEATED
I have to admit that I wasn’t that impressed on the first two TPBs, Seed of Destruction & Wake the Devil. They were well done, but they lacked of character development and since it was the beginning of the s ...more
This third TPB edition features “Hellboy” #5-6, 12-14, along with a pin-up gallery.
The general rating is an average result of individual ratings given to each short story contained here.
Creative Team:
Creator, Writer & Illustrator: Mike Mignola
FINALLY THIS THING HEATED
I have to admit that I wasn’t that impressed on the first two TPBs, Seed of Destruction & Wake the Devil. They were well done, but they lacked of character development and since it was the beginning of the s ...more
I thoroughly enjoyed this! It's basically a bunch of short stories, with Hellboy coming up against random folk tale baddies, and doing what he does best - taking a whooping until he gets the upper hand, and then punching a monsters face in. I liked how these focused on Hellboy, without too much extra stuff going on. My two favorites were The Wolves of Saint August, because let's face it, I'm a sucker for a good werewolf story, and Almost Colossus, which wrapped up the Wake the Devil miniseries.
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Mignola's first collection of shorter stories and it's a fantastic one. A lot of these appeared in other anthologies and the like first or were one off issues. You get both great stand alone stories like The Wolves of St. August and stories that ultimately matter to the ongoing narrative like The Chained Coffin or Almost Colossus. Regardless, you can rarely go wrong with Hellboy.
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This is the book that forever sold me on how cool Hellboy is. I never looked back.
I'm really getting into Hellboy now.
I wasn't quite sure I was liking it for anything more than it's clever use of history, its esoteric occult or science bits, or everyone's acceptance of a big red demon carrying on paranormal investigations in the fifties and sixties. (How does no one mind this???)
However, by this volume, I'm now emotionally invested as well. It's just a little, but it's something. I love the Fae and the Golem bits the most. I wasn't quite sure I'd get into all these tiny vign ...more
I wasn't quite sure I was liking it for anything more than it's clever use of history, its esoteric occult or science bits, or everyone's acceptance of a big red demon carrying on paranormal investigations in the fifties and sixties. (How does no one mind this???)
However, by this volume, I'm now emotionally invested as well. It's just a little, but it's something. I love the Fae and the Golem bits the most. I wasn't quite sure I'd get into all these tiny vign ...more
The third volume of Hellboy series is a collection of short stories that follow Hellboy in his many adventures across the globes, fighting monsters and solving supernatural mysteries.
The book has got a folkish, gothic vibe to it, and Mignola slays it in the artwork.
The book has got a folkish, gothic vibe to it, and Mignola slays it in the artwork.
While Hellboy has a great big plot that runs through all of the 12 main volumes, several of those volumes, indicated by "and other stories" in the title, collect short stand-alone comics that Mike Mignola has written for many different kinds of magazines, anthologies and comic books over the years. This is the first such volume. And it's a brilliant one! It collects some of the best Hellboy stories, such as The Corpse, Iron Shoes, The Baba Yaga, The Chained Coffin, Almost Colossus — all of them
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I really enjoyed each story in this collection. I just wish Kate and every other woman in theses stories hadn't been damsels in distress.
The artwork continues to impress. ...more
The artwork continues to impress. ...more
Read this weekend most of HELLBOY: THE CHAINED COFFIN AND OTHERS, and adored it. It's embarrassing how late I am to loving Hellboy.
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A great collection of tales that further world builds and character builds.
I have pretty much everything that is Mignola and I find that at the beginning of his run on HB, it was the short one shots that were his most effective and entertaining stories and The Chained Coffin collection is a perfect example for that:
World: It's HB and the Mignolaverse, if you've read through 2 trades that means you know what to expect. It is rich in mythology, subtle and slow world building and choked full of loc ...more
I have pretty much everything that is Mignola and I find that at the beginning of his run on HB, it was the short one shots that were his most effective and entertaining stories and The Chained Coffin collection is a perfect example for that:
World: It's HB and the Mignolaverse, if you've read through 2 trades that means you know what to expect. It is rich in mythology, subtle and slow world building and choked full of loc ...more
Re-read 8/1/15: I'm increasing my rating of the collection because I appreciate the thematic unity better than I did before. Each of these stories is based in folklore to some degree, underlining the series' commitment to myth and legend as opposed to the companion series B.P.R.D., which emphasizes the paranormal investigator aspect. I still love "The Wolves of August," but this time I was also drawn to "A Christmas Underground," which is a very creepy variation on The Twelve Dancing Princesses.
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This collection of shorts does a great job of articulating all the reasons I live Hellboy so much. And he is a Capricorn after all! Yay us!
I think this may be the volume that's gotten me hooked to Hellboy. I love the way Mignola uses folklore as a starting point to his stories. (And I loved the notes he added to this collection.) Most of the stories here are very short, but none of them felt too short, or stretched out, for that matter. The Corpse in particular was nearly perfect in every way. The character of Hellboy makes for a great lead in these sorts of stories: professional and personable. My one criticism is how Mignola hand
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This is a collection of shorter works, so it's easy to pick up and read a little bit at a time. Mignola continues to excel at combining occult and folklore in these supernatural tales.
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A collection of Hellboy shorts from 1994-1996, and maybe the best single volume of Hellboy. "The Corpse" is a darkly comic story involving fairies, a kidnapped child, and a talking, rotting corpse. Hellboy spends much of the story with the corpse strapped to his back, bickering with it while he deadpans his way through encounters with just about every creature in Irish mythology. Several of the other stories are key to Hellboy's own mythology, as they reveal the details of his conception and exp
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This series continues on its trajectory of being a masterpiece in storytelling. Volume 3 is a collection of gothic horror stories featuring title character of the series Hellboy. Each one varies in length and tone. Each one showcases the authors ability to tell a rich, satisfying tale in only a few pages. What stands out to me in this volume is the character of Hellboy, how gains more depth than ever before. He’s intelligent in his occupation but goes at it like a drunk in a bar brawl. He’s high
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Now this was different. But still the same.
Where Volumes 1 and 2 present one continuous storyline (with all its detours), Volume 3 of the “Hellboy” comic is a collection of several tales about the protagonist, with only one being a direct continuance of the previously established narrative.
Following the Bureau’s prior case, there is an aftermath involving homunculi (looking more like golems though), semi-Faustian involvements in Heidelberg or Wittenberg or some other -bergian German town with ...more
Where Volumes 1 and 2 present one continuous storyline (with all its detours), Volume 3 of the “Hellboy” comic is a collection of several tales about the protagonist, with only one being a direct continuance of the previously established narrative.
Following the Bureau’s prior case, there is an aftermath involving homunculi (looking more like golems though), semi-Faustian involvements in Heidelberg or Wittenberg or some other -bergian German town with ...more
I have read Hellboy 1, then 4, then 2, and just finished 3, because why would you want to do that chronological thing? Hellboy 3 is like Hellboy 4: (or should that be the other way around?), where at the beginning of each section there are notes from author/illustrator, Mike Mignola, on his inspirations for the stories. I enjoyed the notes as much as I did the stories because they go into the mythology and folklore he used as the basis for the them.
The stories in this volume include The Corpse, ...more
The stories in this volume include The Corpse, ...more
Short stories, short stories everywhere. The chained coffin was my favorite, but the Corpse and Almost Colossus were great too! Even though this volume doesn't really move the plot forward, as the previous two, I love the little snippets of Hellboy's life as an agent of the B.P.R.D. and I love the various mythologies explored. I really enjoy the world building, the ghost stories with religious touches so I'm rounding my 3.5 to 4 stars.
Also, there were a few chuckles here and there, Hellboy is a ...more
Also, there were a few chuckles here and there, Hellboy is a ...more
I'm rating each story base of how I enjoyed them:
The corpse 3/5 stars
The Iron Shoes 1/5 stars
The Baba Yaga 2/5 stars
"How did Baba Yaga lose one of her eyes"
A Christmas Underground 4/5 stars
You get to see some good side of Hellboy is this story and this scene bothers me
Can he glamour? Changing his appearance to make it more pleasing to mortal eyes
The Chained Coffin(Hellboy's Origins) 4/5 stars
I'm giving it a 5 if only they make it a little less short maybe adding some scene where you can see ho ...more
The corpse 3/5 stars
The Iron Shoes 1/5 stars
The Baba Yaga 2/5 stars
"How did Baba Yaga lose one of her eyes"
A Christmas Underground 4/5 stars
You get to see some good side of Hellboy is this story and this scene bothers me
Can he glamour? Changing his appearance to make it more pleasing to mortal eyes
The Chained Coffin(Hellboy's Origins) 4/5 stars
I'm giving it a 5 if only they make it a little less short maybe adding some scene where you can see ho ...more
The short story format works perfectly for Hellboy. Not only does it allow Mignola to explore a larger amount of folklore but it suits the investigative world of the characters perfectly. I was about to name the highlights of the collection but then I realized I'd only be leaving 2 of them out in the process. Each one is fantastic but my favorites were "The Corpse", "A Christmas Underground", "The Wolves of St. August" and "Almost Colossus". "The Corpse" more than any had a very memorable feel t
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Wow... I’m having an impossibly hard time finding where the widespread love for Mignola’s work comes from. Three volumes in, and I still don’t get it. I will try to explain why.
Mignola is a fantastic illustrator, but he’s an awkward visual storyteller. He relies too much on verbal exposition and narration to bridge his panels, and many panels serve no visual or thematic purpose. Many of his panels too often look like cover illustrations or commissioned drawings because they don’t reveal anything ...more
Mignola is a fantastic illustrator, but he’s an awkward visual storyteller. He relies too much on verbal exposition and narration to bridge his panels, and many panels serve no visual or thematic purpose. Many of his panels too often look like cover illustrations or commissioned drawings because they don’t reveal anything ...more
The Chained Coffin and Others, the third trade paperback volume in the Dark Horse collected series, is my favorite Hellboy volume. It collects short Hellboy stories that were all written and illustrated by Mike Mignola himself. The stories have various mythological foundations set at different times and locations where Hellboy must face them. Almost Colossus is a good one with Liz Sherman, The Wolves of St. August is a good werewolf story with a religious slant, The Chained Coffin is a good Engl
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A collection of seven individual stores, one of which, "Almost Colossus", follows up the events that transpired in volume two. With the exception of the last one, the stories are folktales that Mignola has re-worked into the Hellboy mythos. They take place all over Europe, from spooky graveyards to ruins on lonely heaths, from catacombs to abandoned mountain villages.
I liked "The Chained Coffin" and "The Wolves of St. August" as they delved a little into Hellboy's past, revealing the good guy he ...more
I liked "The Chained Coffin" and "The Wolves of St. August" as they delved a little into Hellboy's past, revealing the good guy he ...more
Not Hellboy to me, no Nazi's no memorable villains just random monsters. This is a collection of small stories and comes across as filler.
No way an essential read to the series I would advise to skip it and save your time and money. ...more
No way an essential read to the series I would advise to skip it and save your time and money. ...more
Still adore the art style and the characters tbqh! I nyoomed through a bunch of these (in those library compendium/bindup editions) and forgot to add them in on here, so... Doing that now lmao!
This is the third and certainly the thickest "Hellboy" collection which apparently seeks to compile all material not included in "Seed of Destruction" or "Wake the Devil". I personally think it's a great start for somebody like myself who hasn't read "Hellboy" before.
Mike Mignola's story notes accompany the long out-of-print one-shots "Wolves of Saint August" and "The Corpse and the Iron Shoes," as well as "A Christmas Underground."
"The Chained Coffin," is featured in color for the first time, ...more
Mike Mignola's story notes accompany the long out-of-print one-shots "Wolves of Saint August" and "The Corpse and the Iron Shoes," as well as "A Christmas Underground."
"The Chained Coffin," is featured in color for the first time, ...more
The Chained Coffin and Others is different from the previous two volumes in the Hellboy saga. Volume 3 is a collections of small vignettes that re-tells folktales Mike Mignola has come across. One such example is "The Chained Coffin," which stems from an Irish folktale the author once read.
Like the first two collections, this volume is beautifully illustrated and wonderfully scripted. The colors are still rich and dark, capturing the essence of the gothic-horror feel. The characters are getting ...more
Like the first two collections, this volume is beautifully illustrated and wonderfully scripted. The colors are still rich and dark, capturing the essence of the gothic-horror feel. The characters are getting ...more
I didn't love the first couple stories but then the last two were fantastic.
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Cool artwork and exactly the kind of myth adventure vibe I'm wanting from Hellboy. Simplistic but rich in imagination and detail.
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Mike Mignola was born September 16, 1960 in Berkeley, California and grew up in nearby Oakland. His fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age (he doesn't remember why) and reading Dracula at age 13 introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore from which he has never recovered.
In 1982, hoping to find a way to draw monsters for a living, he moved to New York City and began wo ...more
In 1982, hoping to find a way to draw monsters for a living, he moved to New York City and began wo ...more
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